In Telepathy we quite like video conferencing, so as a logical
next step i quickly put together some proof of concept RTP
payloading elements for Gstreamer with the obvious result:

The screenshot isn't very exciting, which is exactly how it
should be. In the world i would like to live in people don't have
to care about video codecs, whether it is for video calls, playing
online media or whatever else they want to do with video. Looking
at the list of supporters for
the WebM project this may actually happen and that in my opinion is
much is actually the most important aspect of it all.

The most important aspect that is missing at this point to bring
VP8 as the video calling codec to the world is the lack of a
standard RTP specification. Which is something we will hopefully
start working on with various other parties in the WebM project
reasonably soon. For now if you want to feel cutting edge get
Empathy from git master and my
rtp elements. To give things a first try